
Community
Our community started in 2025 and consists of scientists, institutions and universities creating synthetic cells from the bottom-up. Large projects within our community are EVOLF and BaSyC.

Our SynCellNL community
Expertise
Affiliation
Project
Position
Bert Poolman
University of Groningen
Scientist leader EVOLF and PI BaSyC
Biochemistry, metabolism
Cees Dekker
TU Delft
Steering board (Chair) EVOLF and PI BaSyC
Biophysics; genome, cell division
Christophe Danelon
Toulouse Biotechnology Institute/ TU Delft
Postdoc
Synthetic gene expression systems or operons
Claudio Hernandez Lopez
TU Delft
Postdoc
cell growth, replication, division in E. coli and synthetic cells
Dani Ye
TU Delft
PhD
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Dirk Jan Slotboom
University of Groningen
Scientist leader EVOLF and Associate PI BaSyC
Biochemistry, metabolism
Gijs Wuite
VU Amsterdam
Scientist leader EVOLF and Associate PI BaSyC
Biophysics, genome replication, cell signaling
Gijsje Koenderink
TU Delft
Steering board (Vice chair) EVOLF and PI BaSyC
Biophysics, cell division & signaling

Want to join our community?
The SynCellNL community is open for new connections. Would you like to join our network of scientists, institutions and universities in the Netherlands creating synthetic cells from the bottom-up? Or do you want to add an existing interdisciplinary project in this field to our projects page? Submit your request.
If you are looking for a research position (for example a PhD or Postdoc position), discover open positions at our project EVOLF.